Some notes on customizing the default Terms of Service

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

@kemitchell Nice!

@riking

Arbitration is really, really expensive for the “company” - sometimes more expensive than the local legal system - and for hobby forums this is not going to be the best terms for them.

Arbitration is not necessarily more expensive or worse than the local legal system. It really depends. I haven’t reviewed the AAA’s Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes, but I suspect it was chosen as it suited to the forum - user context.

@codinghorror

almost nobody actually cares about customizing the terms of service. Whether they should or not is a different discussion, but the reality is… well, the reality.

Exactly.

I wonder whether it’s worth generating a list of choice of law clauses (i.e. what laws and what dispute resolution procedure applies) which would be automatically inserted based on the locale of the site. Maybe something to add to the legal tools plugin.